Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good reason why the first battle (Bull Run) was such an overwhelming defeat for the North was that Washington papers printed the plan of campaign days before the battle. Afterwards, the sadly shaken Governor of Massachusetts wired Washington asking to have "the martyrs who died in the late battle tenderly preserved in ice and sent forward." Author Pratt never hesitates to give his opinion of Civil War personalities, calls General Burnside "a pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician...
...even Mr. Rand would advocate this now. Since the turn of the century Greek has been omitted as a requirement. Despite a bitter struggle, few people today dispute the wisdom of the step. No, the tide is sweeping on, and it is encouraging that it should. Latin's approaching defeat is not an insult to Caesar, but a salute to those educators who have definitely broadened the horizon of scholastic activity...
...first game was played on April 2 with Mt. Washington at Baltimore, Maryland, when Coach Robert Pool's men took a 13-4 defeat in a match played in the evening under floodlights...
Navy accounted for the third defeat by taking the Harvard team in hand 7-1 at Annapolis, Maryland. The Mid-shipmen almost whitewashed the Cambridge team, which only managed to score through the efforts of Thomas Edmands in the final quarter...
...victory, one defeat, and one scoreless tie was the record turned in by the Harvard rugby team spending its vacation in Bermuda...